Last term our class began participating in the the 100 Word Challenge. If your wondering what this challenge is and what it involves then keep reading! Every year the blogging community run a competition called the 100 Word Challenge which is open for students under the age of 16. Each week a prompt is given… Read More 100 Word Challenge
Welcome back everyone for the last term of the year! I know Mrs. Baldwin can not believe how fast this year has flown and that there is now only 9 weeks left until the summer holidays. We have a very busy term ahead with some special school events and classroom learning that are sure to… Read More Term 4
It has been a while since we have used paint for an art project so we decided this week was the week to do it! This piece of art work was inspired by a book called The Ghost Eye Tree Here is the blurb… One dark and windy autumn night when the sun has long… Read More The Ghost Eye Tree
For Maths we have been learning about measurement with a focus on area and perimeter. It is very important that we are able to apply our skills in real life situations. Therefore we have now all begun designing our very own dream house. Below is the task that Mrs Baldwin gave us last week: Congratulations! … Read More My Dream House!
This term our class have been introduced to an exciting website called Storybird is a visual storytelling community, a global hub of readers, writers, and artists of all ages. It involves us being able to write a picture book, poem or chapter book but the catch is that we are given the illustrations first and then need to… Read More Storybird
This year Grange Primary has modified the way we operate Student Voice Committees. Each class now has 2 Student Voice representatives for each Semester who meet with Ms Wendy once a fortnight to discuss matters around the school. How we decide what matters are important to bring to this meeting is by having a class… Read More Why are Class Meetings Important?
This term for Science we have been looking at a variety of soil samples and analysing their properties and characteristics. Our latest experiment involved us collecting a soil sample from any location and placing it in a clear jar. Next we had to fill our jars with water and shake the jar so that all the water… Read More Soil Solutions
Room 10 have enjoyed using our class blog as a way to communicate with others with what we have been learning in year 4. We are now very excited to see that other classes at Grange Primary School have caught the ‘blogging bug’ and now have their own class blogs up and running! We would like… Read More Blogging at Grange Primary
This year the Children’s Book Council of Australia is celebrating its 70th Anniversary of Book Week! This years theme is Over the past 2 weeks Mrs. Baldwin has been reading us the books that have been shortlisted for this year. The books we have read are: We have done many things this week… Read More Book Week 2015
Our class has been working extremely hard all term to complete our books for the Mayoral Make-A-Book Competition. Our post 2 weeks ago explained how we began creating our books. Now we have completed them and they are ready to be handed into a Charles Sturt library this week! Once we finished typing our stories on… Read More Mayoral Make A Book Part 2